different between cede vs resign

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin c?d? (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *?yesd?- (“to drive away; to go away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophones: sede, seed

Verb

cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)

1. (transitive) To give up; yield to another.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cede the field

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dece

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???.de/
• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.de/, [?ke?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.de/, [?t????d??]

Verb

c?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of c?d?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ce?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ceder
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ceder

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

cede (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ede/, [??e.ð?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sede/, [?se.ð?e]
• Homophone: sede (Latin America)

Verb

cede

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ceder.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ceder.

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resign?re (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + sign?re (“to seal, stamp”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???za?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of. [from 14th c.]
2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position). [from 14th c.]

   I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.

   He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

4. (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. [from 15th c.]

   He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.

   • 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, ?ISBN, page 394 [1]:

     Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?

Synonyms

• quit

Derived terms

• resignation
• resign oneself

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? sign

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??sa?n/

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign
   • 2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020

     Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.

Usage notes

The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.

Anagrams

• Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, reigns, renigs, resing, ringes, signer, singer